Microsoft is giving its Office apps a speed boost

Microsoft is readying to amended the startup velocity of its Office apps, starting pinch Word successful May. The motorboat times of Office apps will amended acknowledgment to a caller scheduled task that will tally silently erstwhile you footwear your PC to make judge Word and yet different Office apps unfastened quickly.

“We are introducing a caller Startup Boost task from the Microsoft Office installer to optimize capacity and load-time of experiences wrong Office applications,” explains Microsoft successful a message to IT admins. “After the strategy performs the task, the app remains successful a paused authorities until the app launches and the series resumes, aliases the strategy removes the app from representation to reclaim resources.”

Word will beryllium the first app to get this Startup Boost starting successful May, and Microsoft says “support for further applications will travel successful early updates.” Startup Boost will only beryllium disposable for PCs pinch astatine slightest 8GB of RAM and 5GB of disposable disk space. Startup Boost will besides beryllium abnormal erstwhile Energy Saver mode is active.

If you don’t want Office apps to commencement softly successful the inheritance astatine footwear past location will beryllium an action wrong Word to disable this behavior. You tin ever delete the scheduled task too, but Microsoft notes that the Office installer will recreate the task erstwhile it applies an update, truthful IT admins will person to negociate this done the in-app mounting instead.

Microsoft uses a number of scheduled tasks to tally Windows tasks silently and optimize the operating system, but they’re not utilized regularly by astir app developers. Google uses a scheduled task for its Chrome updater, and galore OEMs usage tasks to update drivers and different strategy components, but astir different apps for illustration Adobe Creative Suite tally startup processes successful the regular startup conception of Windows, wherever they tin easy beryllium disabled.